The gaming audio market has focused on headphones for years, leaving you to rely on familiar brands like Logitech and Klipsch if you prefer speakers. SteelSeries thinks it can shake things up, though. It’s introducing its first desktop speaker line, Arena, and promising a few standout features aimed at gamers. The flagship Arena 9 (pictured…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Toshihiro Nagoshi has discussed the new project he’s working on and the reason for his departure from Sega. Nagoshi, known as the father of the Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza series, left Sega in 2021 after 32 years at the company to join Chinese technology company NetEase. He later announced Nagoshi Studio, a subsidiary under…
DF Weekly reaches its three-quarter-century milestone this week and dominating our discussion is the evidence that Sony may well be planning its own launcher for PC users – possibly unwelcome news in an era where the PC platform is besieged by a wealth of bespoke launchers that nobody really wants to use… but are we…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (via Getty Images) Elon Musk has subpoenaed Twitter founder Jack Dorsey as part of his ongoing legal scrap with the social network. Musk is attempting to retract his $44 billion offer to purchase Twitter due to a perceived underreporting of fake accounts on the social network. Musk insists that a large…
Consider this: you’re after a big screen experience, but don’t want to pay too much and don’t have the space for a dedicated home cinema projector? What’s available in the market? A solid option is to go down the route of a portable (or pico) projector. Pico projectors are small, portable efforts that offer flexibility…
If you’re outside Slovakia, accessing channels like WAU, Jednotka, and Markíza isn’t possible because of geo-restrictions. However, there is an easy way to get around this. To make sure I can keep up with my favorite Slovak TV shows while I’m on the road, I use a virtual private network (VPN). A VPN is a…
Enlarge / Bikes, infrastructure, and willingness to use both are all needed for Netherlands-level cycling use. (credit: Scott E Barbour) Transportation produces about a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and passenger vehicles account for over half that figure. As such, nearly every plan for future emissions cuts includes some variant of getting people…
Fun fact: I didn’t actually write the last three words of the final chapter of my novel Stowaway. My editor did. And I find them to be the three most ambiguous, frustrating and provocative words in the entire book. To be continued . . . Even now I can’t type them without also adding the ellipses,…
Programming involves a lot of monotonous tasks. Based in Gujarat, India, DhiWise wants to makes things less onerous for developers with its programming automation platform. The company, which won Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty award for Developer Tool of the Year last year, announced today it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by…
More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor, an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas. The Series A was led by SEB Private Equity, which…